Simpson Timber Co. REBORN

Come along as I follow a log train up to Dayton and back on the reborn Stimson Lumber Co.'s railroad is northwestern Washington.

[@piktrains]

Nice work! I bet it took alot of planning and scoping out the locations. Thumbs UP!!

[@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER]

some great camera angles, and great K5H horn.. 5 stars!

[@chefjavier]

Great video! It's lumber is their primary business?

[@wildmanofthewynooch7028]

That rail line is no more! Back when I was a Kid that train would only have one to two logs per car on it all old growth from the Olympic Mountains.

[@mafarnz]

'Bout damn time you got this vid up! With the St Marries Clarkia branch gone, it's nice to see some logging RR's still left. What are those tall boxes behind the cabs. dynamic brakes? I haven't seen other switchers with them.

[@MasCoRailbuff]

Nice work, Matt! You had to really hustle to get back to the Carmen Rd site.

[@BurlingtonNorthernModeler]

Great video, I love the strobe lights on the locomotives

[@mafarnz]

@TheMrBlinx for a 5-10 MPH logging railroad, that rail is fine. I've seen hazmat taken along track that is much worse.

[@JamesTyreeII]

As of 2013, this is supposedly the last operation logging railroad in the United States.

[@backyardrailroader]

Love the video....do not see much logging railroads out there anymore!

[@robertlloyd7167]

Damn, the crew would be seasick by the time they reached the mill!

[@dukesnyder4569]

Good video & thank you!

[@rjl110919581]

THANK YOU FOR DETAIL VIDEO ON REAL OPERATION

[@ddechamp71]

Nice video. How long was that line shut down?

[@mikeparker5596]

I was the one that loaded the lumber on the train in 2010. M. D.P

[@bushranger51]

You know, this is the most sensible way to bring timber out of the forest, one train can cart more timber than a fleet of logging trucks can in a single pull, reducing the rate of accidents by logging trucks,

[@paymentmaker]

I have a feeling you might be a truck hater ? Is there an extreme amount of logging truck accidents ? I haven't payed that much attention. No logging is done by train anywhere anymore. All logs are loaded onto trucks at the landing and then taken to the mill directly instead of the reload, which is a place to unload the truck and reload the logs onto a train and then to a sorting yard or mill, This is Really expensive and time consuming . This was the last old school operation of its type anywhere in the U.S. and can only be performed on vast tracts of private forest land, owning your own mills and railroad . Its just not feasible at all anymore.

[@hallelujahforevermore7224]

not only that dont trains pollute less than tractor trailers? plus the dangers they are on the roads...

[@brianmillar5075]

@@paymentmaker SW1200 would use about 1 gallon of fuel per mile on a average gradient hauling 1000 ton of logs, how many trucks would you need to haul that same pay load and how much fuel are you going to consume at around 5 miles to the gallon, not to mention the damage to roads and the increased danger to other road users?

[@ernestpassaro9663]

It will burn at least 100 gallons per hour under full load what are you talking about ?

[@csxt6573]

@cheechchongfan97 In a round-about way, the Puget Sound & Pacific (PSAP).

[@miketreadwell5654]

It's SIMPSON not Stimson Lumber Co.

[@algrayson8965]

Contact "Simpson" Lumber Co. and tell them that they don't know how to spell their name. Operations | Stimson Lumber www.stimsonlumber.com/company/operations/ "Stimson owns and operates seven mills in Oregon and Idaho. All the mills are located adjacent to the vast Stimson Lumber Company land holdings. The objective of our milling operations is to add value to the logs harvested from the company timberlands." The reason that they misspell their name is that the company's founder, Thomas Douglas “T.D.” Stimson, didn't know how to spell his name. Perhaps he was illiterate. It was 1850.

[@cheechchongfan97]

Do all the switchers have K5H horn on them?

[@MichaelSimpsonLegal]

Too bad that there wasn't narration to tell the story of the old and new companies, how they got there and what is happening in logging. Would have made a dynamic video.

[@hallelujahforevermore7224]

how did they film this?

[@markgorney4268]

With a video camera or cellphone.

[@cheechchongfan97]

What railroad do they interchange with?

[@SmithConductor]

Chase Freeman BNSF

[@robertbowman3406]

What gives here. One says it is reborn and the other says the line is gone.

[@teareadojames3000]

Why are the engines always in reverse when moving. The front one is suppose to be facing the same as the back. Flip the order of engines front to back back to front

[@patrickwines9551]

James, it was probably done for better visibility by crews and to keep cab as far from timber as possible.

[@markgorney4268]

This line no longer exists.

[@ernestpassaro9663]

That ended that argument quickly lol